New Releases by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Its the summer before her junior year, and Alice is looking forward to a few months of excitement, passion, and drama. What she finds are more "real life" problems than she could have ever imagined.

Play ball! That’s what the sixth-grade Buckman Badgers baseball team plans on doing. Eddie Malloy and Jake Hatford hope to lead their team to the championship game the last Saturday in May. But due to a mix-up, Mrs. Hatford has to run a yard sale for the Women’s Auxiliary of the Buckman Fire Department the very same day in their very own yard! Not wanting to miss out on the game, the family elects the only nonbaseball fan in the family, Wally, to stay home and help watch over the sale tables until they return. Wally’s ticked off. On top of that, Caroline Malloy has written and will perform a play for a school project and has roped Wally into costarring with her. Let Caroline think she’s so smart. Wally has his own reason for being in the play. It looks like the Hatfords could be totally humiliated after the girls stumble upon an embarrassing item from the boys’ past. Leave it to Wally’s secret plan to turn the tables on the girls’ scheme and prove who’s really in control! Boys rule!

Sixteen-year-old Alice is outraged when her father signs her up for a class on sexuality at their church without her permission. But what Alice learns this year surprises her as she begins to realize that there''s a lot more to being an adult than getting a driver''s license or having a boyfriend.

The feud between the Hatford brothers and the neighboring Malloy sisters continues over the summer when they reluctantly join forces to publish a newspaper.

Sarah longs to find a way to be someone special, and when her friend''s Chinese restaurant needs customers, she finds a special way to save it.

In this last of the prequels in Naylor''s beloved Alice series, all of 11-year-old Alice''s mysteries are resolved. Now younger readers can get to know Alice, and older fans can find out how Alice came to be the character they know and love.

The summer after ninth grade, Alice and her friends spend three weeks working as assistant counselors at a camp for disadvantaged children and cope with all kinds of changes.

From the shadows of the pool, Black as midnight, thick as gruel... Is Mrs. Tuggle a witch? Lynn and Mouse are sure she is - how else can you explain the frightening things that have been taking place over the past several months? Now Lynn''s mom is planning to move her writing studio into Mrs. Tuggle''s house for the winter, and Lynn can''t imagine a more dangerous situation. If she and Mouse don''t do something, there''s no telling what horrifying things may happen. They''ve got to save lynn''s mom before Mrs. Tuggle strikes again -- but how?

Feel the darkness, touch the black, hear the shadows whispers back... Lynn and her best friend, Mouse, are convinced Mrs. Tuggle is a witch, even if no one believes them. Lynn thought they were safe after they escaped the witch''s clutches last summer, but the evil Mrs. Tuggle hasn''t finished with them yet. A menacing flock of crows is following Mouse''s every move and the girls'' only protection against this dangerous woman is destroyed. Lynn and Mouse know they have to act fast. But they don''t know what Mrs. Tuggle is planning, and this time, they may not get away so easily...

Lynn''s growing conviction that her sister is learning witchcraft from a neighbor reaches its peak when Lynn, her sister, and brother are left for a weekend in the neighbor''s charge.

In her freshman year, fourteen-year-old Alice experiences changes and challenges with friends, family, and school activities, which leave her feeling better about herself than ever before.

Beset by an enemy from within, Dan searches for the gypsies he once knew in York and is led inexplicably into a calamity involving the Black Death in a hostile country among frightened and superstitious people.

Just when the Hatford brothers were expecting three boys to move into the house across the river, where their best friends, the Bensons, used to live, the Malloys arrive instead. Wally and his brothers decide to make Caroline and her sisters so miserable that they''ll want to go back to Ohio, but they haven''t counted on the ingenuity of the girls. From dead fish to dead bodies, floating cakes to floating heads, the pranks and tricks continue—first by the boys, then the girls—until someone is taken prisoner! Will the Malloys leave West Virginia? Will the Bensons come back? Trust the four Hatford boys and the three Malloy girls to do anything to get one up on each other in this fun-filled war of the wits. Readers will cheer for their favorites in this lively story of two feuding families written by Newbery Medal winner Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Watch for the continuing chronicles of the Hatfords and the Malloys in The Girls Get Even.

Valentine’s Day is coming up and love is in the air between Beth Malloy and Josh Hatford. When they are spotted holding hands, Josh tells his teasing brothers that he’s simply spying on the girls to see what they’re plotting next. When Caroline Malloy decides she must know what it’s like to fall in love, too, poor Wally Hatford is in for it! Meanwhile, big sister Eddie couldn’t care less about that mushy stuff. All she cares about is her sixth-grade science fair project. But when she comes up with a great plan, Josh and Jake Hatford horn in on her project. On the day the plan goes into action, little do the boys know that Eddie has a trick up her sleeve. And with daredevil Caroline’s amazing attention-getting stunt, trouble is sure to follow. Get ready, the Malloys and Hatfords are at it again!

When Bernie Magruder sets out to prove that his sister isn''t responsible for the bomb that went off in the Bessledorf bus depot, the next likeliest suspect turns out to be his brother, Joseph. "Snappy dialogue, cliff-hanging chapters, funny situations, and nutty characters . . . a perfect choice for reading aloud".--"Booklist". Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Secrets Orphaned fifteen-year-old Judith Sparrow brings two secrets to her uncle''s house in South Carolina: one, that her grief-stricken mother died in a madhouse, the other that she has disobeyed the only condition to living in her uncle''s home -- nothing green is allowed in the house. Judith can''t bear to part with the photograph of her mother in its lovely green silk frame. Surely this one small defiance will not jeopardize the happiness she finds in South Carolina -- with a family at last, and new friends, especially Zeke Carey, the miller''s son. But Uncle Geoffrey''s house holds a secret of its own. And Judith''s small picture frame, hidden away at the bottom of her trunk, unleashes a powerful force that seems determined to bring that secret into the open. Or is Judith simply following her mother down the path toward madness?

Bodies are coming and going from the Bessledorf Hotel - dead and alive! Bernie''s determined to get to the bottom of the case.

Hoping to earn a trip to an amusement park, the three Morgan children agree to take care of a chicken that their father plans to give their mother as a birthday surprise.

Sam suspects the culprit who is gassing assembly line workers in the parachute factory lives in the hotel his family manages.

Living at the Bessledorf Hotel, where his father works as the manager, Bernie tries to solve the mystery of a troubled, young ghost who wanders the halls of the hotel at night.

trapped in a world that time forgot Josh is hitchhiking his way from Massachusetts to Dallas and a new life he didn''t ask for and doesn''t want, when he is beaten, robbed, and abandoned beside a remote mountain road. He awakes in a strange, primitive village called Canara, seemingly hidden from the modern world, with no cars or telephones or electricity. But are the people of Canara Josh''s rescuers or his jailers? As he slowly heals from his injuries and the tragedy he has been running away from, Josh begins to realize that Canara is far stranger than just an isolated community passed over by time. How can hills and trees shift in place, and even buildings appear and then vanish? Why can''t he escape from Canara? And does he really want to?

While living on his family''s ranch in Wyoming where he hopes to someday become a cowboy, Ryan faces conflicts with his older brother who is involved in a militia movement.

The newest members of the feline Club of Mysteries, Marco and Polo must prove their loyalty to the ultra-tough but seriously injured leader, Texas Jake. Assigned to find a medicinal plant, they venture deep into the territory of the dreaded Steak Knife and his Over-the-Hill Gang.

When thirteen-year-old Chrissa is sent to her paternal grandmother''s farm, she learns more about her absent father and some of the reasons for her distant relationship with her mother.

Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.

Ten-year-old T.R. and his twelve-year-old brother Danny move to Rosemary Acres with their mother and find new friends as well as a lot of community rules to follow.

After several bombs go off around town, eleven-year-old Bernie Magruder becomes suspicious of various members of his family, causing confusion in Officer Feeney''s investigation and around the hotel that his parents run.

When mean and angry Judd, who has never known kindness, takes to drinking and mistreats his dogs, Marty discovers how deep a hurt can go and how long it takes to heal.